Revolts Synonyms and Antonyms

Revolts Sentence Examples

• Had he so desired, Kuprili might have taken advantage of the revolts of the Janissaries to place himself on the throne; instead, he recommended the sultan to appoint his son as his successor, and so founded a dynasty of able statesmen who occupied the grand vizierate almost without interruption for half a century.

• By his ruthless suppression of revolts at Dinant and Liege he made his authority undisputed throughout the Netherlands.

• There were formidable revolts at the mines of Laurium, and more than once in Chios.

• Partial revolts in Italy succeeded; and then came the second Sicilian insurrection under Trypho and Athenio, followed by the Servile War in Italy under Spartacus.

• The fleet was restored, and recaptured Lemnos and other islands which had passed into the hands of the Venetians; the revolts caused by Kuprili's severity were put down, and tranquillity was reestablished in Transylvania.